Cow slaughter: Three men booked

Shivamogga: The city police have booked three persons on the charges of cow slaughter in Karnataka’s Shivamaoga district.

Acting on a tip-off, Tunganagar police conducted a raid on an illegal slaughterhouse in the Sulebailu area on the outskirts of Shivamogga city where they found seven headless bodies of cows.

Police rescued 10 cows from the illegal slaughterhouse and sent to a cow shelter.

The accused, identified as Azeez, Babu and Abdul Sattar, have fled the scene when the police raided the slaughter house.

Police have launched a manhunt to nab the accused.

(With IANS inputs)